en.Wedoany.com Reported - China West Airport Group (CWAG) has partnered with Huawei to advance AI-driven digital and intelligent transformation during the third-phase expansion of Xi'an Xianyang International Airport. By building the industry's first comprehensive airport management platform, the group has achieved notable results, including an on-time flight rate exceeding 93% and an average reduction of 1.3 minutes in aircraft ground turnaround time.
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport's Terminal 5, equipped with cutting-edge technology, is driving the airport to become a new regional growth engine. Founded in 2008, CWAG is now China's second-largest airport management group, overseeing 18 airports across Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Qinghai provinces. Its airports account for over 70% of both the total number of airports and passenger throughput in Northwest China. The group is committed to becoming a world-class, influential airport management cluster.
During the third-phase project, CWAG collaborated with Huawei to establish the 4A concept, encompassing Business Architecture (BA), Data Architecture (DA), Application Architecture (AA), and Technology Architecture (TA). A dedicated Architecture and Standards Management Committee was also formed to ensure project compliance. To support intelligent development, CWAG built a digital and intelligent foundation based on a cloud platform, characterized by reliability, security, and intelligence. It pioneered the adoption of an active-active cloud service architecture within the industry, achieving cloud-network-security synergy and supporting business transformation with high-performance computing power and an efficient AI platform.
Based on this foundation, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport migrated over 60 core systems to the cloud and deployed more than 100P of computing power to support over 35 AI algorithms and applications. This cloud architecture experience was subsequently replicated at Yinchuan Hedong International Airport and Xining Caojiabao International Airport, forming a unified "one cloud, multiple pools" platform. In data governance, CWAG established a group-level data management system, unifying data standards across over 20,000 business fields within the entire group. It also built an AI Data Center that aggregates data from over 50 systems, developing more than 36 analysis themes and 500 indicators to support over 30 business applications.
In the third-phase project, CWAG constructed a digital airport, enabling the synergistic evolution of the physical and digital airports. The comprehensive airport management platform features three new capabilities: panoramic perception, asset visualization, and simulation and prediction. By eliminating information silos, it provides real-time visualization of dynamic data on flights, passengers, baggage, and traffic. It also enables transparent management of equipment and pipelines, as well as simulation of scenarios such as flight transfers and extreme weather.
Chen Yu, General Manager of the Operations Control Center at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport Co., Ltd., stated that after the completion of the third-phase project, the on-time flight rate exceeded 93%, an increase of 3 percentage points from before. The aircraft ground command system added functions such as path planning, runway conflict warnings, and simultaneous pushback, reducing the average aircraft ground turnaround time by 1.3 minutes. Additionally, the system's prediction accuracy for estimated arrival and gate-in times (30 minutes in advance) reached as high as 93%. After the digital command system went live, the digital tower reduced investment by 20% and eliminated command blind spots. Digital twin applications, including smart runways, FOD detection, and intelligent perimeter monitoring, accurately identify safety hazards, and the entire passenger journey service can be completed online.
Xu Zhiyu, Vice President of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU, stated that based on years of experience, Huawei provided a full-stack digital and intelligent foundation, along with consulting and planning services, assisting the airport in integrating its business with the cloud and big data foundation, as well as aligning project planning with technical implementation.
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